Interview with Chef Tatsuya Katagiri

Vancouver is home to some of the best chefs in the world, many have worked for the top chefs and restaurants around the world as well as around the city. Dishing with the Chefs is a series of Interviews with some of the top chefs in and around Vancouver.

Chef Tatsuya Katagiri

Started cooking when he was 19 years old while living in Tokyo, while he was going to university studying Engineering in the School of Management. At the same time he was working at a Japanese Restaurant for 3 years. He obtained his Japanese Culinary Certificate (Japanese government issued) for having worked for 2 years in restaurants and passed the exam. He then relocated to Vancouver on a working holiday visa and worked at Ichibankan Restaurant, after 9 months he returned to Tokyo where he worked in a Japanese restaurant as a chef for 2 years. He then moved to Calgary in 2002 where he lived for 6 years, while he was there he worked as the head chef at Shikiji Restaurant for 2 years, then Sushi Bar Zipang for 2 years and Mercato (Italian restaurant) for 2 years. In 2008 he moved to Vancouver, becoming the Executive Chef of Zest Japanese Cuisine.